The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1887-03-06

If John Mcdonnell, Of the Paterson
Labor Standard" could have gotten one
more vote besides those of Carroll and
Donohue. the Republicans would have
elected him o. S. Senator.
Mr.. Frank Jones, of Sipp avenue, cut
quite swell at the bal masque of the Ho-
boken German Club by the side of beau
tiful Normandie peasant girl.
If the claims of the corporations having
lands adjacent to the new tunnel under
the gap are only partially satisfied, il
would cost more than a million dollars TO
carry out that improvement.
1t is rot at all probable that there will
be Joint meeting of the Legislature this
year for the election of District Court
Judges and other officials whose terms are
about to expire.
There can be no question of the fact that
Governor Green is in full accord with Mr.
Albeit and will resort to all honorable
means to have him obtain seat in the U
s. Senate.
Freddy Fish took Speaker Baird to. bed
with him and when he grew restless fed
him with Sewell's soothing syrup. 1t made
him very naoseous at first, but he took to
it kindly at the end.
The same Monm outh coterie that has SO
bitterly opposed Mr.. Albeit, will as bit
terly oppose the re appointment of Gen.
Chas. Haight as prosecutor of that county.
The grave of General Mcclellan, beauti-
| fully located on knoll overlooking the
Delaware river, near Trenton, is the proper
place for the erection of his monument.
Judge McGill has rebuilt and reftted
the old Princeton homestead. and when
satiated with honors and hoary with years,
will pass his declining years there.
AS the Disque case has been appealed to
the Court of Errors and Appeals, Judge
Knapp cannot be called upon to re-sen-
tence him until that tribunal finally de-
| teimines it in June.
To friend, ex- Governor Bedle is said to
have intimated the other day that he was
only in the Senatorial race to get even with
Albeit, who had sat upon him Gas counsel
for the D.. l.. and w. Railroad Company
all the time he was Governor.
The African Dragons, headed by young
Phil. Hesamp and clad in black skin tights,
a German helmet, sabre and pair of
spurs, were quite novel feature at the
masquerade ball of the Hoboken German
Club.
When the booksellers are again settled
in Hoboken an application will be made to
the Chancellor to grant permanent in
| junction against their traffic, as the author
tiles here are either unable or unwilling 10
cope with the evil.
The booksellers have all rented estab-
lishments in Hoboken for the coming sea-
son and mean to continue to snap their
| fingers at the laws of this State. As usual,
| they will enjoy the protection of the Ho-
boken police Authorities.
The U. S. Grand Jury has indicted the
captains of the Bremen steamers Aller and
Elder for violating the Government law
relative to the carrying of passengers
| They have been bailed by Mr.. VIM. Utz,
but will not be tried before the next term
of the court at Trenton.
The vignette of General Hancock on the
new two dollar bill was engraved by Mr..
Herman Schiecht, of Jersey City Heights,
an expert artist, now employed by Mr.
| ONeill in the Government Bureau of
Engraving.
It was amusing to see the Trenton
estate Gazette" abuse Mr.. CorbiR and his
two colleagues for boiling the Sewell eau
Gus, in the same breath laud the
Democratic boilers for refusing to vote for
Mr.. Albeit.
It is more than three years since it was
discovered that Collector Mcmahon had
robbed Hoboken of over $50, 1000, yet the
suit against his bondsmen is far from final
adjudication, and an attempt is now being
made to legislate tue City Attorney in office
for five years Will the taxpayers of Ho-
boken ever tumble
Under the laws incorporating the same
the State Council of Charities and Correc-
ton can only draw one thousand dollars
per annum from the Treasury for ex-
penses. OF that sum Mr.. Willard c. Fisk,
its secretary, has drawn $500 co. $3.50 for
inspecting the institutions of the State, and
$500 for his services as clerk.
Governor Green refuses to deliver up
Chairman Fitzsimmons, of the Hoboke
Council, to the New York authorities on the
plea "that he has always lived in Hoboken
and was not fugitive from justice" That
may be called illegal aeumen," but it eff
fectually keeps him out of the reach of the
New York authorities, where he is wanted
on an indictment for embezzling the funds
of the State Steamship Company.
Matthews silly resolution petitionirg
Congress to pass law providing for the
election of United States Senators by the
people, was killed in the House last Mon
day, many Democratic members voting
against it. A motion to reconsider the
vote by which the resolution was lost was
then tabled.
A limited expenditure for soap, paint,
mattings and carpets would be vastly more
beRt fetal to the old Court House than the
continuous great OUTLAWS for fancy schemes
Of ventilation that do not ventilate but
only add to the misunderstanding drafts
already existing there.
After Beckwith had succeeded in hav-
ing his 'Poetical effuson of Lunatic'